The importance of setting objectives Over the past year, objectives have become more and more important in my life as an engineer as I have been realising how helpful it is to track my growth progress. I believe every Software Engineer should set their objectives on at least a yearly basis. This is to keep…

I’ve made a simple search app which calls to the Guardian API to retrieve articles and display the results to the user. First I will show you the functional app code, followed by unit tests and then followed by integration tests. …

Hi! My name is Linh and I am an ASOS graduate with less than two months left on the programme. I joined in September 2017 and for the first four months we were given the chance to learn ‘all the things’, before joining the established teams at ASOS.

For the past three weeks, I have been trying to create a React app from scratch to understand the set-up with Webpack. My aim was to set up a simple configuration which can then be grown upon. It’s been a struggle to understand Webpack. …

Say you have a work and a personal GitHub account. You’re working on one machine and have several projects, some of which you want to push to your personal account or vice versa. This is where you can use SSH keys so that you don’t have to keep re-entering your…

Last night I was trying to configure my PATH so that I could open Sublime Text from cmder just how I can open atom and Visual Studio Code with atom . and code . respectively. …

The other day I wanted to commit my changes into several separate commits however I made a mistake and pushed all of them to GitHub. I therefore wanted to revert back to a previous commit, override the current one and do the whole process again. Here are the steps I…

Long time no blog…that’s because I’ve been busy applying for jobs, doing tech tests and going to interviews. Well today (15/08/17) I had a phone call from ASOS offering me a position as a Graduate Software Engineer! I am beyond ecstatic! I literally cried when the lady on the phone…

I’ve finally had the guts to upload my rookie TDD Roman Numerals Kata in Ruby. Check out the video below if you’re interested. If you have found this helpful please hit that 💚 button and share it on social media :) www.pinglinh.com Follow me on Twitter | Check out my LinkedIn | See my GitHub